Public bid alerts

Tennessee excavation bids

Excavation packages in Tennessee are posted across dozens of separate public purchasing portals — a county school system, a utility district, a city engineering department, and SAM.gov all publish on their own schedules. BuildLead Alerts watches those sources, reads each notice, and shows you the excavation work that fits your trades, radius, and project size.

What gets picked up

Mass and structural excavation, cut-and-fill site packages, trenching for utilities, footing and foundation excavation, rock removal, undercut and subgrade repair, and excavation line items inside larger site development contracts.

How the notice is read

Each solicitation is parsed for trade categories, place of performance, bid due date, agency, estimated value when the agency publishes one, mandatory pre-bid meetings, and bonding language. Anything the source does not state is shown as "Not provided" rather than guessed.

What you do with it

Matched excavation notices land in your dashboard with a 0–100 score and appear in a weekday email. Every item links straight to the awarding agency's official posting so you can pull plans, specifications, and addenda from the source.

Public sources monitored

  • Federal solicitations posted to SAM.gov with a Tennessee place of performance
  • Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) lettings
  • Tennessee Central Procurement Office and state agency bid postings
  • County and municipal purchasing departments
  • K-12 school systems and higher education
  • Water, sewer, and gas utility districts

Coverage grows as sources are added. We do not guarantee that every public solicitation is captured, and we do not issue any of these solicitations.

What a matched notice looks like

These are illustrative sample records shown publicly to demonstrate the format. Live matched opportunities are visible to signed-in subscribers only.

Sample data

ConcreteExcavationUtilities
81MATCH

Fire Station No. 4 Addition & Sitework

Construction of a 2-bay apparatus room addition with footings, slab-on-grade, storm drain tie-in, driveway apron, and utility extensions to the new wing.

City of Maryville
Blount County
Due in 6 days
$385,000
Bonding required

Mandatory pre-bid meeting

View opportunity

Sample data

ConcreteUtilitiesExcavation
72MATCH

Senior Center Restroom & Entrance Improvements

ADA-compliant restroom renovation, new accessible concrete entrance walk and ramp, and reconnection of sanitary and water service to the renovated wing.

Sevier County Government
Sevier County
Due in 23 days
$145,000
Bonding required
View opportunity

Common questions

Does this include private excavation work?
No. BuildLead Alerts covers public procurement only — solicitations issued by government agencies, districts, and public institutions.
Do you tell me whether I am prequalified?
No. Prequalification, licensing, and bonding capacity are determined by the awarding agency. We surface the requirement language we find and link you to the official documents.

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